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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem

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